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HITCHCOCK

200

'Jessica Tandy finds a farmer dead, his eyes gouged out, in this 1963 thriller'

The Birds

400

'Hitchcock made this film in 1934 & then remade it in 1956 with Doris Day & Jimmy Stewart'

The Man Who Knew Too Much

600

'Cary Grant admires Grace Kelly's big diamonds in this 1955 caper'

To Catch a Thief

800

'Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman fall in love & ferret out Nazis in Brazil in this classic'

Notorious

1000

'John Dall & Farley Granger strangle a college friend just for thrills in this, Hitch's first color film'

Rope

CHAD IS RAD

200

'Chad's colonial overlord until independence in 1960'

France

400

'In the 11th century the kings of Chad converted to this faith'

Islam

600

'Refugees from the neighboring Darfur region of this country have fled into eastern Chad'

the Sudan

800

'It's the country directly north of Chad'

Libya

1000

'The capital & largest city'

N\'Djamena

IT'S A "SIN"

200

'It can mean to burn slightly, or to burn the ends of hair or cloth'

singe

400

'For more than 200 years, the annual Baltic Herring Market & Fair has been a big to-do in this world capital'

Helsinki

600

'Carson Sink & the Great Salt Lake lie in the drainage area known as the Great this'

Basin

800

'Of Welsh extraction, Frank Lloyd Wright named his homes & fellowship after this early Welsh poet'

Taliesin

1000

'As well as discovering a famous gap in Saturn's rings, he also discovered 4 of Saturn's moons'

(Giovanni) Cassini

TAKE-OFFS

200

'This late author's representatives sued over "The Cat Not in the Hat", a rhyming account of the O.J. Simpson trial'

Dr. Seuss

400

'"Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry" is a satirical type of this guide'

a travel guide

600

'"The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen", one of Bret Harte's "condensed novels", parodies this French tale'

The Three Musketeers

800

'Rafreaky the baboon & a 30-year-old Annie have appeared in this NYC theater spoof that debuted in 1982'

Forbidden Broadway

1000

'"Go for Barocco" is a take-off of Balanchine by this hairy, all-male ballet troupe'

the Trockadero de Monte Carlo

LANDINGS

200

'As its name suggests, the tipp toe approach procedure at SFO is meant to minimize this'

noise

400

'Runways are numbered by compass degrees without the last digit, so this is the highest number used'

36

600

'You land, not anchor, at this Phoenix airport, named by a board member from Scenic Airways'

Sky Harbor Airport

800

'A beach on this half-Dutch island offers close-up views of planes landing at Princess Juliana Airport'

St. Maarten

1000

'The ILS, short for this, was first installed at Indianapolis in 1940'

the Instrument Landing System